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4 days ago · With the exception of the years 1872–1873 and 1892–1894, the imperial chancellor was always simultaneously the prime minister of the imperial dynasty's hegemonic home-kingdom, Prussia. The Imperial Diet had the power to pass, amend, or reject bills, but it could not initiate legislation.
19 hours ago · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the ...
19 hours ago · The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
4 days ago · 1756 - 1763. Participants: Austria. France. Great Britain. Hanover. Prussia. Russia. Saxony. Sweden. Context: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. British Empire. Major Events: French and Indian War. Treaty of Paris. Battle of Plassey. Silesian Wars. Battle of Wandiwash. Key People: Sir Eyre Coote. Frederick II. Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz. Maria Theresa.
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- The Seven Years’ War was a far-reaching conflict between European powers that lasted from 1756 to 1763. France, Austria, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia...
- The Seven Years' War resulted from an attempt by the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the province of Silesia, which had been taken from them by Fred...
- The treaties that ended the Seven Years' War were the Treaty of Paris signed on February 10, 1763, between Great Britain, Hanover, France, and Spai...
1 day ago · And others which were also eventually unified, as is the case of the Italian Republics. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:50 The Concept of A Country 01:21 Kingdom of The Algarve 01:59 Divided Spain 02: ...
5 days ago · Karl August von Hardenberg (born May 31, 1750, Essenrode, near Gifhorn, Brunswick [Germany]—died November 26, 1822, Genoa [Italy]) was a Prussian statesman and administrator, who preserved the integrity of the Prussian state during the Napoleonic Wars.
5 days ago · Peter I (born June 9 [May 30, Old Style], 1672, Moscow, Russia—died February 8 [January 28], 1725, St. Petersburg) was the tsar of Russia who reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V (1682–96) and alone thereafter (1696–1725) and who in 1721 was proclaimed emperor ( imperator ). He was one of his country’s greatest statesmen ...
